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[quote=Anonymous]It is silly to go to an out-of-state tournament now for obvious reasons.  People just do not want to incur the costs and deal with the restrictions on travel -- or pay the money for team play, and risk illness for themselves, their kids, their family or co-workers.

All in all -- you would be looking at spending, ballpark, $500 per kid between the kid's share of the tournament costs, plus hotel and travel costs.  Alternatively, your coach could give a call to two or three other coaches of comparable teams in your immediate area and do a round-robin "tournament".  You could split the costs of field rental and refs and you would be in for say $300-$500 a team.  If you wanted to offer food -- you probably could get some food trucks to come out and/or delivery services to bring food to the fields.

We did that approach years ago with my daughter's u16s and u17s and invited coaches from all the girls' colleges within about a 100 mile radius.  We had 4 good teams do 60 minute round robin games.  Everyone kicked in $50 and there was money to spare after paying for field usage, refs, food and drinks for the kids and refs,  food and drinks for the coaches, mileage reimbursement and 4-5 hotel rooms for coaches coming from longer distances.  It was a great "showcase" event for the teams.

All of the teams were of a caliber that about 10-12 kids were going to play in college at some level (DI to DIII) so it was attractive for coaches to come watch.  In other words -- they got to see good players who live in the area and are likely to go to school in the area.  Parents were out of pocket maybe $100 when they added in our own meal costs, and we got a huge bang for the buck on recruitment.  Coaches got to see, realistically, 30-40 kids who were going to play college ball and it cost them nothing.  The clubs got great PR and a chance to build on coaching relationships.

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